1. Who is being interviewed? George Dodge.
2. What is his position? Farmer.
3. What is his race, gender,and age? He is a 70 year old white male.
4. Where is the interview taking place? At his home in Worthington, Massachusetts.
5. What is the date of the interview? January 24, 1939
6. Who is the interviewer? The interviewer is Rosalie Smith.
On January 24, 1939, Rosalie Smith went to interview George Dodge, a 70 year old white male, at his home in Worthington Massachusetts. George, whose wife had died 3 years earlier, had been a farmer all his life and had lived during 2 depressions. According to him, the depression after the civil war affected him more than the depression that had occurred a few years earlier. He called this the depression the Real Depression and that the more current one was nothing compared to it and he should know since he experienced both. He said of his early life "We were poor. My father eked out a living the best way he could [for?] there was no way of earning a dollar." Of the two depressions he said "We hear a great deal of fussing about how hard times are these days but it isn't half as bad as when I was young. Why this depression is nothing compared with the depression right after the Civil War. In 1876 there were the hardest times I ever saw. That was THE greatdepression. There was hardly any money in circulation. No business was being done. Men worked for fifty cents a day -- sometimes less -- if they could get any work. The roads were full of people tramping who couldn't find anything to do. These tramps -- they weren't real tramps, but rather poor people trying to find work -- followed the railroad mostly; but once we counted seventy-five who passed by our house in only a few hours. Nothing was done to help people then. There were no subsidies from the state or national government, although a few became town charges and that was one of the big expenses of the town at that time. Some of the tramps begged along the way and were fed, but none were ever arrested for vagrancy." I think this interview describes what life was like for normal people like farmers in the North during the depression and how the one after the civil war affected him more than the depression that had just occurred.
-Connor K
1. Who is being interviewed? James F. Turner
2. What is his/her title or position? He was in the Navy
3. What is his/her race? Gender? Age? Male, 78 years old
4. Where is the interview taking place? n/a
5. What is the date of the interview? March 25, 2002
6. Who is the interviewer? Daniel D. Smith
-Maria V
Who is being interviewed? Jacob Stein
What is his/her title or position? He is a worker in New York
What is his/her race? Gender? Age? He is a 50 year old man of Russo-Jewish Ancestry
Where is the interview taking place? Union Square, NY
What is the date of the interview? Dec. 5, 1938
Who is the interviewer? B. Hathaway
A worker named B. Hathaway interviewed a man named Jacob Stein on Decmber 5, 1938, in Union Square, NY. During the interview B. Hathaway asked questions concerning what life was like for imigrants working in New York at the time. Of this Jacob said "As one looks over the wrangling, shifting mob, he will see perhaps the largest group deciding the fate of Germany and the man with the little mustache. The Italians, in a group by themselves, are telling the tale of their own pet dictator, with rather more against than for. Jugo-Slavs, Czecho-Slavs, in their own tongue -- Karl Marx. Discussions ranging from Mary Baker Eddy, theosophy and the Bible to private grievances; but dominated, on the whole, I should say, by that faith, or group, that has redesignated the park "Red Square," after the famous plaza in Moscow." Also Jacob talks about how he and the other workers are treated by their boss Mike. As the interview goes on Jacob talks about his job and what his life in New York is like for him and many other immigrants that lived there during the great depression in the 1930's.
Group 8 afr-amer pictures
1. Who is being interviewed?
The person being interviewed is W. D. strange. He has a fictitious name of Walter Strother.
2. What is his/her title or position?
His position is a farmer.
3. What is his/her race? Gender?Age?
He is Caucasian, male, and he’s in his sixties.
4. Where is the interview taking place?
The interview takes place at Lykesland, South Carolina.
5. What is the date of the interview?
The date of the interview is February 28, 1939.
6. Who is the interviewer?
The interviewer is L.E Cogburn.
1. Who is being interviewed? George Dodge.
2. What is his position? Farmer.
3. What is his race, gender,and age? He is a 70 year old white male.
4. Where is the interview taking place? At his home in Worthington, Massachusetts.
5. What is the date of the interview? January 24, 1939
6. Who is the interviewer? The interviewer is Rosalie Smith.
On January 24, 1939, Rosalie Smith went to interview George Dodge, a 70 year old white male, at his home in Worthington Massachusetts. George, whose wife had died 3 years earlier, had been a farmer all his life and had lived during 2 depressions. According to him, the depression after the civil war affected him more than the depression that had occurred a few years earlier. He called this the depression the Real Depression and that the more current one was nothing compared to it and he should know since he experienced both. He said of his early life "We were poor. My father eked out a living the best way he could [for?] there was no way of earning a dollar." Of the two depressions he said "We hear a great deal of fussing about how hard times are these days but it isn't half as bad as when I was young. Why this depression is nothing compared with the depression right after the Civil War. In 1876 there were the hardest times I ever saw. That was THE great depression. There was hardly any money in circulation. No business was being done. Men worked for fifty cents a day -- sometimes less -- if they could get any work. The roads were full of people tramping who couldn't find anything to do. These tramps -- they weren't real tramps, but rather poor people trying to find work -- followed the railroad mostly; but once we counted seventy-five who passed by our house in only a few hours. Nothing was done to help people then. There were no subsidies from the state or national government, although a few became town charges and that was one of the big expenses of the town at that time. Some of the tramps begged along the way and were fed, but none were ever arrested for vagrancy." I think this interview describes what life was like for normal people like farmers in the North during the depression and how the one after the civil war affected him more than the depression that had just occurred.
-Connor K
1. Who is being interviewed? James F. Turner
2. What is his/her title or position? He was in the Navy
3. What is his/her race? Gender? Age? Male, 78 years old
4. Where is the interview taking place? n/a
5. What is the date of the interview? March 25, 2002
6. Who is the interviewer? Daniel D. Smith
-Maria V
A worker named B. Hathaway interviewed a man named Jacob Stein on Decmber 5, 1938, in Union Square, NY. During the interview B. Hathaway asked questions concerning what life was like for imigrants working in New York at the time. Of this Jacob said "As one looks over the wrangling, shifting mob, he will see perhaps the largest group deciding the fate of Germany and the man with the little mustache. The Italians, in a group by themselves, are telling the tale of their own pet dictator, with rather more against than for. Jugo-Slavs, Czecho-Slavs, in their own tongue -- Karl Marx. Discussions ranging from Mary Baker Eddy, theosophy and the Bible to private grievances; but dominated, on the whole, I should say, by that faith, or group, that has redesignated the park "Red Square," after the famous plaza in Moscow." Also Jacob talks about how he and the other workers are treated by their boss Mike. As the interview goes on Jacob talks about his job and what his life in New York is like for him and many other immigrants that lived there during the great depression in the 1930's.
Group 8 afr-amer pictures
1. Who is being interviewed?
The person being interviewed is W. D. strange. He has a fictitious name of Walter Strother.
2. What is his/her title or position?
His position is a farmer.
3. What is his/her race? Gender? Age?
He is Caucasian, male, and he’s in his sixties.
4. Where is the interview taking place?
The interview takes place at Lykesland, South Carolina.
5. What is the date of the interview?
The date of the interview is February 28, 1939.
6. Who is the interviewer?
The interviewer is L.E Cogburn.
-Chloe L